Wa a’gwan,
So, i dont take anything seriously. when i get an assignment for a class i see how i can make this assignment as funny as possible and make it easy for me to do. then one day i got an assignment for gournalism 260(in our room we say j’s as g’s sometimes because of paul rudd from “wet hot american summer” when he says “i gotta write in my gournal..(girl corrects him)…sorry im not all smart like u”. then there was the old guy on cash cab who called a gerbil a gur-bul so we just use g’s as j’s…its funny and ur not so deal with it) and i figured i would write about how halo madden and call of duty4 have taken over college students lives. here it is:
More and more students have been missing classes and handing in shoddy work due to a severe addiction running rampant on campus. The addiction is to Microsoft’s popular videogame console the Xbox 360. The Quinnipiac University Health Services Center has no treatment for this dependence.
Walking into a room where students are playing Halo is like walking into a war-zone. Loud machine guns blasting, grenades blowing up, bodies strewn about the screen, and loud death cries ring out from the speakers as everyone watches the carnage unfold.
The games of choice among QU students are Halo 3, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and Madden ’08. The first two of these games are first-person war scenarios and the last is a football franchise named after famed announcer John Madden.
Bill Richman a sophomore communications major said, “I like Madden better, but that is a seasonal game. Everyone plays Halo now and you have to go with the flow.”
An Xbox 360 can have up to four players participating on one television at a time. Because of this feature college students now find themselves playing videogames with groups of people instead of by themselves. Another feature of the console, known as Xbox Live, is that it can log on to the internet to create even larger groups of players.
In the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year Madden ‘08 was virtually the only game played by students. As the NFL season dragged on and football-fever fizzled out, there was the need for a new game to play. Halo 3 was released on Sept 25, 2007 and according to Microsoft made $170 million in the first 24 hours. Some QU students went out and bought it right away but it did not catch on as a full fledged college addiction until the football season ended.
Halo is still played in most dorm rooms but some gamers have decided to move on to Call of Duty for a more realistic war game.
When parties begin to get lame on weekend nights it only takes one suggestion from a bored student before the green lights start flashing, the game disc is inserted and the little white system is started up. Weekdays are a different story, however. On weekdays the console never shuts off. Televisions are used for videogames and cable is only used to kill time in between Halo matches.
This addiction mainly affects males but has also been known to infect the occasional female Halo player.
On multiple occasions female students have walked into the Troup 110 dorm room and asked, “Is this a real game or a videogame?” during a Madden match. That is how good the graphics have become, but that is to be expected when Microsoft makes a videogame system.
“One time I skipped two days of classes just to play Halo.” said Leon Sanchez, a sophomore business major. “The first day I didn’t even realize I missed class until it was too late. On the second day I knew exactly what I was doing but I didn’t care.”
i got a 95 for this piece of bullshit.
stay classy,
the general (robert e. lee….robblee)
